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  3. June 2008

Re: Advantages of RPG

David FOXWELL wrote:
I won't spend a lot of time telling you why other languages aren't as good. But look at my requirements: easy access to single records by key, simple declarative language with support for modular stateful programming, and intrinsic support for business types.

intrinsic support for business types ? You just lost me ! But thanks.

I just meant fixed-precision decimals and date fields, primarily. You can't really be a business language without those. Dates in particular need all the corresponding manipulation functions as well; calculating duration and all that good stuff.

Joe

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